Tag Archives: Short Film

Our ambition as storytellers is a blessing and a curse all at once. We create a ton of content every day. We literally have digital piles upon piles of writing, footage, sound, and research stored on our hard drives. And yet it is such a small percentage of what we want to do. We sometimes forget in the day to day of our operation how much we do, and how much we’ve done. We constantly feel like we’re doing nothing. Some days are such a struggle to get through because of it. It felt

“The Bench” is a 2-minute short film starring Daniel Rock as the occupant of the bench and Josh Tichauer as the stranger who sits awkwardly close to him. It was directed and edited by Melody Rock, shot on the Canon 7D and cut on Final Cut Pro X. I used wonderful royalty free music, a silent film title card I found on the Internet, and built in effects from FCPX to achieve the old silent film style.
I wasn’t feeling so hot and Daniel suggested that we go make a short film. It would be simp